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N. FEICK.

Trunk Caster.

Patented June 7,1881;

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uvenima NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NICOLAUS FEIOK, OF NEWARK, NEIV JERSEY.

TRUNK-CASTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,441, dated June '7, 1881.

Application filed April 19, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, NIOOLAUS FEIGK, ofNewark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improved Trunk- Roller, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to construct the frame-work for a trunk-roller out of one piece, and yet to provide the necessary bracin g for the pintle of the roller, and to bring the roller as near to the bottom of the trunk as possible.

Heretotore there have been endeavors made to properly secure a trunk-roller by making its frame oftwo pieces and putting the roller-bearing part of it through the other part from above, furnishing the outer or supporting frame with ears, against which the pintle ofthe roller could bear. This, however, was an expensive constrnction, and was objectionable, moreover, because it carried the roller farther down than necessary, making it more liable to be broken off, because it projected from the trunk farther than will be done by the use of my invention. My invention principally consists in constructin g the roller-bearing frame with down wardly-projecting lips for carrying the axle of the roller, and with outwardly projecting shoulders directly above the axle or pintle, said lips and saidslmulders and frame-work being made ofone piece, all ashereinat'ter more fully described.

In the accompanyingdrawings, Fignrel represents a perspective view of a corner roller constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a central section through the same, being taken transversely through the roller. Fig.8 is a longitudinal section of the roller-carrying portion thereof; Fig. 4, a similar section as Fig. 2, but on a bottom roller, which is not a corner roller. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section on the same plane as Fig. 3 of the plane before the lips are bent down, and Fig. 6 is a top view of the construction which is shown in Fig. 5.

A is the roller, and B its axle or pintle. The axle or pintle hangs in lips a, thatproject downward from a plate, 0, which is made of sheet metal or of cast metal, as may be desired. Directly above each of the lips a is a horizontal shoulder, b, and above said shoulders the plate 0 is again raised, as shown at (I, so as to bring its upper face, 0, above the shoulders I). The ends of the pintle B are directly beneath the shoulders I), and are thus braced and support ed against pressure from below, or against the crushing influence ofa heavily-weighted trunk.

I prefer to construct the plate 0 of sheet metal, because in that case I can produce the lips to and the shoulders b by bending or stamping the sheet metal in manner indicated in Figs. 5 and 6-that is to say, the plate 0 is first stamped, as in Fig. 5, to carry the middle portion of it downward, making it resemble a pan with ailat bottom. I then cut the bottom of this pan, as indicated in Fig. 6, so as to produce the lips a, and I bend these lips down, as in Fig. 3, so as to leave sufficient of the bottom of the pan above said lips as will form the shoulders b. By this means the axle is properly supported and braced, and the roller is brought as near to the bottom of the trunk as possible without causing it to actually touch, and without requiring the bottom of the trunk to be cut away at any part. The same construction of frame, however, may also be produced of cast metal.

In Fig. 1 my invention is shown applied to a corner roller; but I do not limit myself to the use of the invention on corner rollers, as the invention is also applicable to bottom rollers that are not corner rollers.

I claim- The combination of the roller A and its pintle B with the supporting-frame (J, which is made of one piece and formed with the shoulders b, above the pintle carrying lips a, approximately at right angles thereto but below the top 0 of said frame, substantially as described.

NIUOLAUS FE IOK.

Witnesses A. V. BRIEsEN, WILLY G. E. SCHULTZ. 

